Section: Human Rights Watch (USA)
Central Asia: Violent Response to Protests Fuels Rights Violations
Click to expand Image Riot police block demonstrators during a protest in Almaty, Kazakhstan, January 5, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Vladimir Tretyakov (Berlin, January 12, 2023) – Authorities in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan used unjustified lethal force to respond to protests in 2022 and have utterly failed to ensure accountability for a...
Belarus: Zone of Repression
Click to expand Image Protesters display broken paper prison bars representing the Belarusian population in prisons and the lack of freedom in Belarus, in Krakow, Poland on August 9, 2022. © 2022 Artur Widak/NurPhoto via AP (Berlin, January 12, 2023) – Belarusian authorities further escalated their crackdown on dissenting voices and doubled down...
Russia: War’s Supersized Repression
Click to expand Image Police officers detain a man holding a poster that reads “no war” during an unsanctioned protest on March,13,2022 at Manezhnaya Square in front of the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia. © 2022 Contributor/Getty Images (Berlin, January 12, 2023) – The Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine marked the start of a...
Brazil: Ensure Justice for Attack on Democratic Institutions
Click to expand Image The word “democracy” on a pedestrian bridge in São Paulo, Brazil, October 26, 2022. © AP Photo/Matias Delacroix 2022 (São Paulo) – Brazilian authorities should thoroughly investigate all those who have incited, financed, or committed acts of violence in an attempt to negate election results, Human Rights Watch said today...
EU: Ukraine Response Shows Principled Approach Possible
Click to expand Image Ukrainian refugees at a Paris train station, Paris, France on April 30, 2022. © 2022 Pierrick Villette/Abaca/Sipa USA (Sipa via AP Images) (Brussels) – The European Union and most of its member states espoused a commitment to human rights and democratic values in 2022, and in some instances, lived up to those values, Human...
Human Rights Watch Issues Damning Verdict for UK
Click to expand Image Volunteers sort food into food parcels at the Rumney Forum community charity on November 8, 2022 in Cardiff, Wales. © 2022 Matthew Horwood/Getty Images (London) – The United Kingdom government repeatedly sought to damage and undermine human rights protections in 2022, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2023....
Turkey: Tightened Control in Election Run-Up
Click to expand Image Opposition members of parliament hold up placards protesting the Erdoğan government’s proposed law to criminalize disinformation and tighten control over social media as an attempt to increase censorship in the run up to 2023 elections; October 11, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici (Istanbul) – Turkey’s...
Ukraine: Russian Invasion Causing Widespread Suffering for Civilians
Click to expand Image A family walks amid destroyed military vehicles in Bucha, near Kyiv, Ukraine, April 6, 2022. © 2022 AP Photo/Felipe Dana. (Kyiv, January 12, 2023) – Russia’s war in Ukraine has wrought a devastating toll on civilians and shattered civilian life in much of the country, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report...
Russian Forces Forcibly Disappear Ukrainian activist
Click to expand Image Photo of Iryna Horobtsova, 2022. © 2022 Private (Kyiv, December 22) – Russian forces forcibly disappeared Iryna Horobtsova, a resident of Kherson, Ukraine, in May 2022, and are understood to have unlawfully transferred her to Russian-occupied Crimea, where they are holding her incommunicado, Human Rights Watch said today....
Belarus: New Laws Target Critics in Exile
Click to expand Image Members of the Belarusian diaspora outside the Adam Mickiewicz monument in Krakow, Poland, October 2, 2022. © 2022 Artur Widak/NurPhoto via AP Photo (Vilnius, December 22, 2022) – Belarusian parliament passed legislative amendments to a 2002 citizenship law that could be used to target members of the political opposition,...
